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breadth fifty feet ; the outer walls are four feet in thickness, and 
that of the pronaos somewhat more than three. The capitals of 
some fluted columns which are now lying at the foot of the hill on 
which the temple stands, are of no established order of architecture, 
and may perhaps be said to be a mixture of Greek and Egyptian ; 
a coalition which w'e should certainly expect to meet with at 
Cyrene, but of which we recollect to have seen only a few in- 
stances. Close to this building, on its northern side, is the quarry 
from which the stone employed in its construction w'as probably 
taken, forming a deep trench at the foot of the hill. The aspect of 
both temples is nearly east, as is usual, we believe, in buildings of 
such a description. 
To the eastward of the larger temple, and close to the city walls, 
are the remains of the stadium, part of which is excavated in the 
rocky soil on which it stands, and those parts only built which the 
rock could not supply. Its length is somewhat more than seven hun- 
dred feet, and its breadth about two hundred and fifty. The course is 
now so much buried, and overgrown with long grass and other vegeta- 
tion, that the mode in which it was disposed could not be ascertained 
with any certainty ; neither is it easy to decide clearly how much space 
Avas allotted to the seats, which do not occupy at present more than 
five-and-thirty feet on either side. The whole is, in fact, (like the 
temples,) in a very ruinous state, and nearly all the constructed part has 
disappeared. There are two masses of building to the north-westward 
of the stadium, which appear to have had some connection with it, 
but we will not venture to state any decided opinion with respect to 
